From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 2 17:26:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760BE37B424 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 17:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from europax@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010503002626.BCDH24113.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Wed, 2 May 2001 17:26:26 -0700 Message-ID: <3AF0A55C.9431EB63@home.com> Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 17:25:00 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dsentelskids@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: World wide email project, please help. References: <3AF03D60.15FFEDBC@dobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kind of an internet version of the Ham DX Century Club, where confirmed communication with 100 different countries gets you a nice certificate. Rob. Wes Peters wrote: > > This is a real project, not a hoax. If you wish, reply to this message > and show the kids what a big group the FreeBSD community is. Mention > FreeBSD in your message. > > ************************************************************************ > > Hello Everyone! I recently read an email similar to this to my class, > and they thought it was just the "coolest thing." Wanting to be a > teacher that would subject my "kids" to The Coolest Things, I thought, > Why not? Here are the details: > > We are 16 fourth graders (+ one class guinea pig, Farley Drexel) in a > small rural community in Illinois. > > We've decided to map an email project to see where our email can > travel via internet between now and May 9, 2001. (1 month exactly) We > will also be graphing how many responses we get from each state *AND* > hopefully country. > > This is NOT a pen-pal project as we will not write you back unless you > request verification. (Which we will be glad to do...) > > You can help us by: > > 1.) Email us back at: dsentelskids@yahoo.com and tell us your city / > state / country so we can plot it on a map and chart it on our > graph. > > 2.) Forward this email to everyone you know so that they can send it > to everyone they know and they can.....you get the picture......to > help us reach even more people. > > I would like to prove to my kids that even though we are a small bunch > from a small community we can do BIG things. > > We don't mind receiving repeats, so, please, send away! *HOPEFULLY*, > with a little help, we would like to post our results on the website > of our school. > > After we do this, you can all check in and see how we did. Our school > site is: http://www.windsor.k12.il.us/ - but, PLEASE remember the > finishing date is May 9 and it will take us a day or two to get it > posted. With your help we can make this a very fun learning > experience. We are all very excited! > > Thanks, in advance, for your help! > > Denise R. Sentel > Windsor Grade School - 4th Grade > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters System Architect > http://www.dobox.com/ DoBox Inc. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message